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Friday, February 02, 2007

Dreamgirls

I felt it was slighly less than the sum of its parts. It's as if the director couldn't quite decide whose story would carry us to the final curtain. So in the end no one's story truly grabbed me. Good performaces, though; especially Eddie Murphy (more of him would have been good, particularly more on his decline), Beyonce and Jenifer Hudson. Terrific frocks. My real dislike for the piece though is the great injustice done to Florence Ballard by the script. If it's supposed to be Dreamgirls aka The Supremes, the Dreamgirls finale just won't do. She died guys. Tell us that story.